AirBuccaneers 1.5 for UT2004 Released

istewart writes "Version 1.5 of the AirBuccaneers mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 was released today. This isn't a typical FPS mod, since it's about pirates on balloons and the player is allowed to select from 4 roles on the different craft : pilot, cannon loader, aimer, and musketeer. Hand to hand combat is de-emphasized in favor of strategic air battles."

And other mods...

[77Punker]

...there's been a billion other mods released, including favorites like Red Orchestra and Frag.Ops. Check beyondunreal.com. It's just becuase of the MSU deadline.

Re:And other mods...

[Ralman]

Obligatory MSU link:
$1,000,000 NVIDIA Make Something Unreal Contest [makesomethingunreal.com]

Re:And other mods...

[nocomment]

But were any of those conceived in an opium den?

Best department yet

[empaler]

from the arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! dept.

Re:air buccaneers ?

[drinkypoo]

Face the facts, zitso.

Dark website

[hambonewilkins]

Looks like their website took a cue from the Doom3 department... can't hardly make out a thing.

Game looks pretty cool, though, but wonder if it'll work with Ut2004 for mac?

Re:Dark website

[cnsc1rtr]

Game looks pretty cool, though, but wonder if it'll work with Ut2004 for mac?

I managed to get it running on my mac, but it crashes as soon as anyone trys to use the cannons. The tutorial, for instance, runs great until you have to adjust the cannon. Then it crashes to the desktop. In instant action, a couple seconds into the game, a bot started to mess with a cannon and the game again crashed.

beautifuuuul

[eurasian]

ABU is a real visual treat. It's gameplay is slow, methodical, and really QUITE fun. If you have a group of friends it's the best way to play, as it requires a TON of teamwork (loading cannon, piloting balloons, scouting for other balloons). Just think of a real-time, 3D, Flying Scorched Earth.. with Pirates..

I am the top Kill Count Crew

[Pinkoir]

I've played Air Bucaneers quite a bit and I'd have to say that it's my favorite mod for UT2004. The ballon to ballon combat is really quite fun and once you get a crew of four or five buddies together it's an absolute blast with everybody working feverishly away at their assigned task and the captain yelling "YAAARRR" into the teamspeak server as loud as possible.

Add to that the humerously non-english (finnish maybe?) names and grammer and the comical hideousness of some of the character models and you've got a game that will absolutely leave you in stitches. I've died on many occasions because I have been laughing too hard to properly control my guy.

Can't wait to play the new version.

-Pinkoir

modding

[randalx]

Another fine example of the creativity of modders. I wish MMOG could harness this creativity since in many cases it seems the dev teams are having a hard time suppling the large amount needed.

Good luck finding someone to play against

[slot32]

UT2k3 is fragmented by SO many mods (Good thinging Epic - launch a 'make something unreal contest' to get 1000 mods for UT!) it's rare you find anyone to play agaist other than the n00b friendly ONS (Onslaught (Vehicles)).

Unreal Tournament is already being dubbed as 'dying/dead' online... just look at gamespy's stats (Which include BOTS in game servers - Currently, there are only
Ad to this, the new games coming out or recently out (PainKiller2, Halo 2, Doom 3, Half Life 2, HL2 Source etc) I think thi

Re:Good luck finding someone to play against

[slot32]

Sorry.. I did mean UT2k4 of course, not 2003, and the current gamespy stats show 2000 players TOTAL (All mods) which strangly didn't get posted in my previous post.

To give you some idea on popular games online: Halo 2 has about 10,000 players online, and Countner strike has about 45,000.

Re:Good luck finding someone to play against

[abc5]

don't play onslaught.

What idiot made their trailer?

[bedessen]

On their site is a link to a trailer clip of the game/mod [ludocraft.oulu.fi].

This file is 12.0 MB and contains only 1:10 (70 seconds) of footage. The video stream is 512x384 DivX 5 (DX50 fourcc) at 25 FPS, with an average bitrate of 738kbit/s. That's pretty respectable. However the audio track is UNCOMPRESSED PCM at 22kHz stereo, which comes works out to a bitrate of 706kbit/s. That is just insane - approximately half of this file is UNCOMPRESSED AUDIO.

Had the person used a decent codec, such as VBR mp3 at 128kbit/s ave